Episode 51: Usernames, Shmusernames

Thursday June 26th 2008, 8:01 am
Filed under: Audio, Episodes, MP3, Wikipedia

This week, we talk about the possibility of adding 2 million new articles with a bot, stalking, collaboration and usernames.

  • 0 intro
  • 1:30 Wikipedia Story Wiki
  • ~07:00 - Powerset
  • 12:00 Disclaimers
  • 23:30 Massive bot additions?
  • 34:00 Single user login
  • 38:30 Offensive usernames
  • 48 Colloboration tool
  • 48 Board elections
  • 59 Stalking
  • 1:07 Illustration project
  • 1:12 Area51
  • 1:31 END
 
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Episode 48: Interview w/Jimmy Wales

Thursday May 08th 2008, 11:13 am
Filed under: Audio, Episodes, MP3, Wikipedia

An interview with Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia and chairman emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation

Panel

  • Fuzheado

  • Liam Wyatt

We welcome help recording exact time codes for the following topics.

Topics

  • Board restructuring

  • Moderation of Foundation-L
  • Stuart West new board member
  • Ayn Rand
  • Hayek and Reason magazine article
  • Corporate use of wikis
  • Value of Wikipedia to historians
  • Research idea - use of language in articles vs. time of editing
  • Andrew Keen debate
  • John Seigenthaler panel
  • Erasing obvious vandalism from database
  • BLP - Brian Peppers and limiting article sizes
  • “Arbcom” equivalent for content
  • Wikia search
 
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Episode 44: Stable Perversions

Thursday April 03rd 2008, 12:41 am
Filed under: Audio, Episodes, MP3, Wikimania, Wikipedia

The News Roundtable, with panelists: Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), Liam Wyatt (Witty Lama), Privatemusings.

1:50 Donations from Sloan and Khosla
12:39 Staffing
15:21 Statistics
19:58 FlaggedRevs
39:03 Single User Login
40:35 Wikinews update - interview w/Mike Halterman
53:15 Wikimania 2009 - Buenos Aires
58:30 Top 100
- Major Boobage
- Fitna
- D.B. Cooper

 
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Episode 43: The Future of Wikipedia

Thursday March 27th 2008, 3:57 pm
Filed under: Audio, Episodes, MP3, Wikimania, Wikipedia

7:37 Liam on Wikia
11:12 Valleywag on Wales
21:47 Feedback
42:11 Wii moment
52:52 wrapup wikileaks
54:51 Kaltura
55:27 Alexandria security
56:24 RfB

 
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Episode 42: The Question of Muhammad, the Wiki,and Everything

Monday March 03rd 2008, 3:47 pm
Filed under: Audio, Episodes, MP3, Wikipedia

The panel returns, with Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), Liam Wyatt (WittyLama), and Nico Montes (The Placebo Effect).

Topics include Muhammad pictures on Wikipedia, Foundation audit and new hires, State of mailing lists, Citizendium’s license, Steward election results, and Print Encyclopedias.

 
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Episode 39: Knol Pointer

Tuesday December 18th 2007, 5:04 am
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The News Roundtable, with panelists: Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), James Hare (Messedrocker), Nico Montes (The Placebo Effect)

Rundown
1:30 Carolyn Doran, COO
14:51 Google Knol, should Wikipedia be afraid?
23:38 World of Deletion - Angela Beesley
26:35 Articles for Deletion with Placebo
34:15 Widgets in MediaWiki
36:00 Jimbo comment on citing Wikipedia
39:53 New users cannot move pages
40:39 Steward elections, main page deleted
41:17 Arbcom elections
41:52 Rollback for normal users
42:33 Top 100
46:51 Contact

 
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Episode 38: Interview w/Brianna Laugher

Friday December 14th 2007, 5:04 am
Filed under: Audio, Episodes, MP3, Wikipedia

Special episode: An interview with Brianna Laugher (User:Pfctdayelise) on the recent gift of US $20,000 for the Phil Greenspun Illustration Project, and her administration of the project to “pay” volunteers to create free illustrations.


Also, the recent news of GFDL and Creative Commons license compatibility, what are the details and what does it mean for Wikimedia projects. Hosts: Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) and Liam Wyatt (User:Witty Lama)

 
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Wrapping up Wikimania

Sunday August 05th 2007, 3:19 pm
Filed under: Wikimania, Wikipedia

I’ll take a moment from the normal course of events to post a person wrap-up of Wikimania 2007. My plane for Sydney leaves in twenty minutes, so I only really have a few minutes to write up some notes on the conference.

First and foremost, the last five days have seen 1,352 downloads from either WikipediaWeekly.com, or, in the case of my lightning talk video, YouTube. Tawker provided us with a very impressive internet backbone, and I’m proud to say a number of things about it: that it was insanely fast, that it was utterly reliable, that we never even scratched the surface of its capabilities, and that it allowed us to serve a record amount of content in the given time period.

For reference, that’s an average of one download every eleven minutes, with a peak of one every five minutes or so. For a podcast as esoteric as ours, that’s impressive.

Secondly, I’ll take a moment to thank the rest of the podcasting crew. Andrew Lih (who, despite what his profile picture would have you believe, no longer sports a Chairman Mao hairdo) provided us with an amazing host and driving force, while Liam Wyatt proved to be a proficient interviewer and efficient content updater each time we released an episode. MessedRocker was a fun and helpful co-panelist, and JamesF… well, he didn’t mock me all the time. ;)

Thanks to everyone who said “hi” to us in our messy little corner, and especially to those who stole JamesF’s wafer sticks at my insistence.



Day 3 Morning Update

Sunday August 05th 2007, 7:21 am
Filed under: Audio, Episodes, MP3, Wikimania, Wikipedia

We’re back again, this time with Episode 26 in the form of our final Morning Update for the Wikimania 2007 conference! In this episode, we discuss Brion Vibber’s Single User Login talk today, as well as yesterday’s activities and the Wikimania Party (including the adventures of a certain cartoon mascot).

 
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Interview with WikiTravel’s Evan Prodromou

Sunday August 05th 2007, 6:11 am
Filed under: Audio, Episodes, MP3, Parenting, Wikimania, Wikipedia

Liam and Andrew caught up with Evan from WikiTravel today, to talk to him about the non-WMF Wiki project. They asked about the future of WikiTravel, how it differs from the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects, and the release of Kei.ki, his new parenting-based Wiki.

 
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